Page 505 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 10 February 2009
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shadow corrections spokesperson in relation to bills of rights and human rights. Over the next couple of days we will actually do a revisit of the Liberal Party’s position on the bill of rights and on human rights, a piece of legislation which the Liberal Party opposed in its entirety and absolutely and campaigned on a platform of repeal. The Liberal Party not only opposed the human rights legislation of the ACT; it campaigned on a policy of repeal.
Then we go back to Bill Stefaniak again, as time moves—
Mr Hanson: Your magistrate?
MR STANHOPE: No. The leader of the Liberal Party in 2007, your spokesperson, your leader, your mentor, your guy, said:
I have yet to discover a single group—
according to the leader of the Liberal Party—
that is in favour of the ACT building its own jail.
“I am yet to find a single group in the ACT that is in favour of building its own jail.” He continued:
The Territory already enjoys an economical arrangement where the ACT’s … prisoners are accommodated in New South Wales …
According to Mr Stefaniak, the leader of the Liberal Party, on behalf of the Liberal Party, “I am yet to find a single person who supports the building of a jail.”
Then, of course, there was a change in the guard. We can now actually leave Mr Stefaniak and go to Mr Seselja, who knocked him off—the old back room, the stab in the back, the roll. So we then go to the current Leader of the Opposition, the current leader of the Liberal Party, your current mentor in relation to the prison. The then spokesperson for corrective services—yes, a hush falls—on 26 March, the spokesperson on corrections, Mr Zed Seselja, said in a press release:
New figures … have shown that the ACT Labor Government’s decision to build a prison in Canberra is off the mark.
According to Mr Seselja, the now Leader of the Opposition, the now leader of the Liberal Party, the now mentor, the then spokesperson on this issue:
The case for the prison continues to be a false one.
According to Mr Seselja 18 months ago—just listen to it, out of his own mouth:
Whilst it is unfortunately too late to stop the prison from going ahead …
“It is unfortunate that it is too late to stop the prison going ahead,” Mr Seselja says, “it provides a stark example of this government’s waste of money on unnecessary projects like a prison.” “It is a stark example of this government’s waste of public
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